Nida Idrees

About me

Nida provides client-centred, trauma-informed counselling and draws from CBT-informed, DBT-informed, mindfulness, solution-focused, and collaborative approaches. Her experience includes supporting adolescents, adults, couples, and families experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, family violence, emotional distress, and complex psychosocial concerns.

Her approach is compassionate, practical, and collaborative. She works with clients to better understand their concerns, identify meaningful goals, develop coping and emotional-regulation skills, and connect with appropriate supports and resources. She also has extensive experience in psychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, safety planning, psychoeducation, referrals, and multidisciplinary care.

Nida has over five years of experience in mental health counselling, psychosocial assessment, crisis intervention, safety planning, intake, brief therapeutic support, referrals, case management, and community resource coordination. Her clinical experience includes working with adolescents, adults, couples, and families experiencing anxiety, depression, trauma, intimate partner and family violence, emotional distress, and complex psychosocial concerns.

Her counselling practice is grounded in a client-centred and trauma-informed approach, with interventions informed by Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), mindfulness, solution-focused counselling, and psychoeducation. She works collaboratively with clients to understand their experiences, identify their goals, build practical coping strategies, strengthen emotional regulation and self-management skills, and determine appropriate next steps.

Nida also brings extensive experience in crisis assessment and intervention, safety planning, service navigation, referrals, and collaborative care. Her previous work includes supporting survivors of violence, individuals experiencing significant psychosocial stressors, and clients requiring coordinated support across healthcare and community services.

She believes that effective counselling should be collaborative, respectful, culturally responsive, and tailored to each client’s unique needs, strengths, circumstances, and goals.

What I help with

• Nida can support clients experiencing:
• Anxiety and excessive worry
• Depression and low mood
• Trauma and trauma-related concerns
• Emotional distress
• Stress and life transitions
• Emotional regulation difficulties
• Coping and self-management challenges
• Family and relationship concerns
• Intimate partner and family violence
• Psychosocial challenges
• Crisis and safety concerns
• Difficult life circumstances and adjustment
• Self-esteem and personal growth
• Navigating mental health and community resources
• Her experience also includes providing psychoeducation, developing coping strategies, supporting emotional regulation, completing psychosocial assessments, safety planning, crisis intervention, and connecting clients with appropriate community and mental-health resources.

My approach

• Nida’s additional training includes:
• ASIST — Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training
• Trauma-Informed Care — Alberta Health Services
• Crisis De-escalation
• SPRAM — Alberta Health Services
• Psychological First Aid
• Alberta Family Wellness Initiative — Brain Story
• Motivational Interviewing — Alberta Health Services
• Introduction to CBT — Alberta Health Services
• Introduction to DBT — Alberta Health Services
• Professional Credentials
• Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) — 11254908
• Counsellor Therapist (CT) — 3235
• Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) — RP(Q), CRPO 20445
• CAP — Credential Evaluation in Progress